The new thing

I am enlivened by the new thing because in an instant I grow sufficient to recognize it, and growth often triggers satisfaction, or even joy.

Most human conceptions

Most human conceptions of god are merely maximal ego.

On consumption

Consumption, too, is a kind of creation, of appreciation, of enjoyment, of benefit.

Affection can

Affection can (and probably should) outlast attachment.

All thought

Is all thought anticipation?

I'm trying

I'm trying to understand the limits of what I can understand.

Hubris may be strongest

Hubris may be strongest in humility.

Poetry

Poetry that doesn't engage with cliche is poetry of and for a world without cliche, which is not this world.

Life

Life looks like fiction but is better read as poetry.

If you have to suppress or misrepresent ideas

If you have to suppress or misrepresent ideas that differ from yours to the young (or to anyone else), you are admitting that your ideas cannot compete with those ideas on a level playing field and are therefore inferior.

New poems

+15

When we discover

When we discover that yesterday is inaccessible, we try to recreate it in our minds so that we may revisit—or at least draw upon—it as desired. One must wonder how much of today is lost due to this ongoing effort, the demands of which are ever-increasing.  And yet, the ramifications of denying ourselves this resource are inconceivable.

A larger gap

There is a larger gap between my poems and the reception of my poems than there is between my poems and my ideal for my poems.

New poems

+30

Saga

There is saga, but no sage.

On madness & creativity

Not all creativity is madness, but is all madness creativity?

New poems

+15

How does one witness

How does one witness regression?

So many ways

There are so many ways to go wrong.

That is best

That is best which is unexpected and deeply satisfying.

On life

Life is a question without an answer.

New poems

+15

What if time

What if time is a measure of change?

Meaning is dependent

Meaning is dependent upon being.

The ramifications

The ramifications are underappreciated.

If not

What is existence, if not experience?

New poems

+15

Truth can coexist

Truth can coexist with another truth, even one that conflicts, contradicts, but struggles to abide a lie.

Victory awaits

Victory awaits those who can define it.

How much easier it would be

How much easier it would be to dream forever than to live forever.

On tolerance

Tolerance is not a panacea.

What if

What if time and entropy are the same thing?

Without the new, the next

Without the new, the next, how is one to fill the hole left by the loss of the previous?

The way it's always been

The way it's always been is the weakest of arguments.

"Good"

When we deem something good, we are often simply noting that it conforms to what we are accustomed to, to what we are expecting.

Maybe

Maybe everything is a nail, and that's why we invented the hammer.

Quick 2024 Summation

Books Read:  76
Poems Written:  1372

Another record number of poems written for a year. My new poetry collection (Danse Macabre) was pushed until the beginning of 2025, so I didn't have one come out in 2024. The relatively low number of books read was due to way too much time spent on yet another MMO (which should be my last). Rotten year in almost every other way, but I was productive!